Facilitating a "breath of fresh air," through art making, exploration, and encouragement, Fabienne provides a space for students and patients to confidentially draw outside the lines. It is this same freedom and empathy that she brings to her time spent at the NIMH in Angoda and at the Siviraja Children's Development Center for the deaf and blind. She concentrates on the encouragement of free self-expression through drawing, painting, and sculpture. Through them, she communicates the conflicting issues in Sri Lanka today: school and education, dreams and weddings, sex and business, silence and fear, courage and dedication, as well as religion and tolerance.įor Fabienne, drawing is thinking. They are a tale of the daily struggle showing distinctive appearances, expressions, and gestures.
Her portraits are about the characteristics of class, gender, and race. Through her art, Fabienne becomes an unintentional conduit of the soul.
She reveals an interior human world, at times disturbing, but always beautiful. While featuring external, physical features, her works lend insight to the inside of each persona. The works were infused with the essence of her many interactions, which then, at the time of their creation, spontaneously intermingle with her memories and her mood. The portraits, inspired by Fabienne's personal journey through daily life and the complexities of the Sri Lankan identities she met. Having exhibited her works extensively in Europe, the artist moved to Sri Lanka in 2016 and continued to engage with communities across different social strata, allowing her to absorb her new environment and interpret these experiences into her first exhibition of works in Colombo, 'It's Like Someone Took My Soul'. After 20 years of working with children in Belgium, the artist began her artistic practice with a course in calligraphy, a technique that is still evident in much of her work.
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